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Running the long-term numbers on biofuels

It's pretty easy to think that our transportation problems will be solved if we just switch to a hybrid or commute in a biodiesel Hummer. But the Partnership for a Sustainable Methow and Energy Bulletin published an article yesterday that has a dour prediction of our future, even if biofuels do become ubiquitous in the years ahead. The article, by Dana Visalli, puts the world's daily energy use and production into context, and it's a fairly frightening context. For example, each gallon of fossil fuel takes 98 tons of "prehistoric, buried ... Read more →

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